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Sorry for my silence of late and the recent sluggishness of the list. Please find below a CFP in the UK ... There has been an influx of new members and am sorry that I have not been able to personally welcome you all but please feel free to post a thread, contribute and refresh any of the archived ones or introduce yourself to the list, which is currently nudging the 300 mark in terms of membership, which is amazing really. BB, BW, 93, Dave CALL FOR PAPERS FOR 2nd Cambridge Centre for the study of Western Esotericism Conference to be held on Saturday 11th October 2008 in the Unitarian Memorial Church in Cambridge CB1 1JW UK WESTERN ESOTERICISM & THE ARTS Artists in the literary, musical and visual fields have long been influenced by and involved with esoteric teachings and practices, some of these connections are well known, Botticelli and astrology, Mozart and Freemasonry, Yeats and the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, but many remain less known or hidden, so that the extent and importance of these influences tends to have been underestimated or unrecognised. Papers are invited which look at Western Esotericism and the Arts, from a variety of academic and practitioner disciplines. Please send an email of your abstract in a hundred words to Dr Sophia Wellbeloved [log in to unmask] See further details at www.ccwe.wordpress.com <http://www.ccwe.wordpress.com/> Deadline for papers 31st JULY 2008. CONFIRMED KEYNOTE SPEAKER Reverend Dr Malcolm Guite Chaplain of Girton College Cambridge is both poet and priest. His paper will trace the hidden course and some of the sources of the stream of "esoteric" thought and imagery which flows, so often unnoticed through western arts, and in particular will look at literature. The Cambridge Centre for the study of Western Esotericism is independent of any academic or esoteric communities, the co-ordinators share an interest in the need for a wider dialogue between scholars and practitioners in the field of Western Esotericism and in the establishment of a secular space in which an interdisciplinary network can thrive. This email was independently scanned for viruses by McAfee anti-virus software and none were found